May 19, 2018 • 35 mins
Ron starts this episode taking a call on a 2012 Camry where the drivers window comes down half way after putting it up : takes a call from a caller with an interesting viewpoint on autonomous cars : takes a call on an 08 Dodge Durango with power steering issues : takes a call about $25 oil changes : answers an email on diagnosing a car : takes a call on a 65 Beetle with a starting circuit problem : and takes a thank you call for a repair on a Volvo C70.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, yea, Ronians, I started the basics, right,
we always we start at the beginning. I tried scanning
for codes, a scan codes. There were no fault codes
in this vehicle. Nothing, not a zip. I got a
B S, M V S C lights on it. I
got a car that doesn't run worth a hoop, that
car doctor. Yeah, I gotta tell you you're you're a
(00:25):
rock start up here. I mean, well, I appreciate this.
I wish we could duplicate you. Yeah, everybody keeps everybody
keeps saying that. I wish we could. Um. I wish
you could duplicate me and I could get the sleep
part of the fun. Welcome to the radio home of
Ron and Nanian the Car Doctor. Since this is where
car owners the world overturned to for their definitive opinion
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(01:10):
who that that voice was. Wanted any of the car doctor.
That last one was I can't think of the actor,
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that's the sixties, brother, That's right, that was the that
was the cartoon Underdog, right, had there's no need to
spread the fear. Underdog is something near dadda dada, YadA dada. Yeah,
(01:32):
so it's um And the first part was the town
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I'm not a royal wedding fan, dude, I gotta tell
you neither of mine. But you know, it's it's fun
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they still got to get there in cars, which is
why we're here because sooner or later them cars is
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You see how way I rhyme that ad and two
and let's go talk to Alan about camera. Allen, welcome
to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Well,
thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. I've got camera
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and when the driver's window goes up on automatic, it's
the top and it comes back down halfway. And I'm
wondering if there's any sticks to that other than replacing
the whole keypad, which is over well, I don't know
that it is that that it is the keypad. Um.
You know, there is a method of initialization that has
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to go about does the window seem to drag it
all alan? Is it it goes up? Normal process? I
mean the first thing I would do then is I
would scan this car for codes. I know that sounds
um silly, but you know there could be fault codes
in the fourteen things like that. There there's non issues,
but understand what happens here that that window regulator or
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the window a motor is, for lack of a better
way to say it, it's feeling the drag of the
sliding resistance of the window glass, all right, and when
it senses if it doesn't, it has to know top
and it has to know bottom. And there's another there
is an initialization procedure whereby you're going to open the
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window all the way and then hold it for one
second after the window is fully opened, and then fully
closed the window and hold it for one second or
more and that sets the glass position. All right. Now
there's an led on the master switch. That light will
stop blinking and illuminate to show you that the initialization
is complete. All right. And if you know, if for
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some reason or maybe for some reason it lost initialization,
I have seen that. Um, you know, something changed in
the way the regulator perceived drag resistance and it just
kind of lost its mind. So it you know, it's
it's fail say, is when it when it hits top,
it just automatically opens halfway, which is the first class,
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don't it. It seems to go up fine that it
only happens when it's not magic. If I jobbed the switch,
I can get it to go up the way. But
if I do it too much, can I get the top?
Then of course it comes back down again? Right? So
how do you so? So do this? Take the window,
Take the window as far up as you can, all right, um,
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And then and then open the window. And when you
get down to the bottom, hold the switch. Hold the
switch to account of five one to you know, five mississippies,
one Mississippi to Mississippi. And then after it does that,
close the window. And hold it for a count of five.
All right, and watch them holding the switch up? Who
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was holding the switch up? After it goes up, it
still comes back down again? It does, Yes, so you're
holding the switch. Then we gotta scan for coach. I
don't I don't think this. There may be a fault
in this regulator. This vehicle doesn't know where top and
bottom is. This is this is, this is something a
little deeper than um a relearn if if if you
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can't get this window to go up all the way
and stay in the help position. And I don't know
that that necessarily means it's a switch. Like I said,
this is all based on network communication. First thing I'd
be using as a scan tool to see, you know,
can I talk to everything and can follow proper command?
All right? Who told you that it was a switch?
I haven't had anybody look at it yet. And now
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this is this is this is way more involved than
just a window regulator and a and a you know,
this is a network thing, um or it can be.
This is all about you know, this is all about
communication between components. So yeah, new Wage Electronics is exactly right.
Um so, but yeah, let them take a look at
it and uh, you know, let's diagnose this. But you know,
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if it's if it's if it's not responding to initialization,
that's the first clue that there's there's something wrong here.
All right, sir, than you let me know what happens. Alan,
I'm curious, So get back to me and let me
know what the what the deal is. Let's go and
talk to Paul in Virginia. Some comments about autonomous cars. Paul,
what's going on? Yes, hello, I know how you feel
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about automas cars and I feel the same way. And
it's kind of interesting. And previous caller, I mean, that's
an automous window and it's not working correctly. So you
really want autonomously operated vehicles? Well yeah, well this technology
could be actually useful, beneficial is if it doesn't control
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the car. But let us know how our driving is.
And so at the end of the trip, you're you're
driving for of that trip, whether it be five miles
or five hundred miles, would be then rated and come
up on a screen and and uh, you know, you
you can see where you know, well, uh you you
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you can't to stop it was past the stop sign
or past the strike or well this that and the
other and how you know, maybe help you to, uh
to improve. And I think a lot of people too,
they they like that gratification thing, and uh so it
might actually improve people is driving, which you mean you
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could be improved. It means sort of like their insurance
rate might go down if they scored more points in
the good driving department. Well that's it too. I mean
they might even have uh that information going to the
insurance company. I mean, it probably should be a sort
of thing where you could opt in or opt out,
you know, because that's kind of a big brother situation.
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You know. They do have that now with with insurance
companies involved. They do and earns companies and they've had
it for a while where they plug in a ride
along device that plugs into the O B D two
port and it will track how you drive, speed limits.
It can't necessarily tell if you're if you're doing rolling
or Hollywood stops it stops signs, and it can't tell
if you're driving like a jerk, but it can tell
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you know, speed, acceleration rate. You know, it can tell
a bunch of information and it does affect people's insurance.
And we're seeing more and more of that in the shop,
so they've got that. I'm not sure how they would tell,
you know, the stop sign thing or weaving in and
out of lanes, but I guess there's ways. I think
the biggest problem you're gonna have is that is as
you said, big brother, and that will keep people from
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allowing it, because we all have this fear and understandably so,
of what the government would do or could do. Unfortunately,
and I don't think a lot of people realize it.
More and more are every day, but automobiles are becoming
data centers as we speak, meaning that you know, the manufacturer,
the the you know, um trying to think about the
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insurance companies. A lot of outside agencies are paying very
careful attention to you know, where you put the headrest,
what radio stations you're listening to. Um on newer cars,
you know, these these um UH connected cars as we
call it. Where you get in the car, you touch
a button, It puts the head rest here, it puts
the seat rest there, It adjust the radio station, it
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turns on the heat. It's all preferences and in terms
of your driving desire, and they're they're they're collecting that
information at some level, they're turning that into marketing information
at some level. And I just I saw. I went
to a seminar on this about a year ago, and
it was it was scary and fascinating at the same
time about what's being collected on the newer cars, the
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information about the characteristics and habits of the driver. And
you know, we're I keep thinking of that that science
fiction thriller from the seventies. I think it was Logan's Run,
and you know how the people all lived in that
sheltered dome and um, uh they went for I forget
what it was they went. They called it rejuvenation or
(10:10):
something at the end um celebration or whatever, and uh,
it was a controlled society. So you just uh four
years old, yeah is it? Yeah? Thirty is it thirty
four years old? Logan? Yeah, thirty four years old. You
went for the It was you were over. Your life
was over at thirty four, right, that was it. And
that's why Logan went for the run. Right. Yeah. So anyway, Um, Paul,
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, brother, and UM, we'll
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say we'll keep an eye on it, you know what,
stay the costs and stay the cause and uh, you know,
just try and do what you can do. You have
a good rest of the day. Down there in Virginia Way.
I'm running Anty in the car. Doctor. We are back
right after this. He drives that way. But when it
comes to fixing cars, Ron has card advice done right
eight five five five zero nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron. Yeah,
(10:56):
but if I had that Dodge, I probably wouldn't. I'd
probably go Grenny go, Ron, go roun go run and
Dodge is the perfect name to have on the front
of a car coming at you, right, they jump and
get out of the way, would be you know, it's
too long, right. So besides, you know you've never seen
me drive the fifty five, have you? You showed me videos?
I think i'd stay out of the way. Yeah, so
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you know, and there's a reason why you never see
me in that car. You get it? Anyway? Um, I
could answer this, I could. All right, let's do this.
Let's go over the phone. Let's go over to to
Randy's been waiting there very patiently. Oh eight Dodge durango. Hey,
here's a Dodge. By the way. You know what dodge
stands for? Randy? Do you know what dodge stands for
uh tell me ron drips, oil drips, grease everywhere. Go ahead,
(11:37):
what can I do for you? Okay? Right, yeah, this
is an all way to Dodge Durango. And um, my
wife and I just recently got in an accident with
this this vehicle. I'm sorry everybody. Everybody all right, everybody
is okay, And you know that's the most important thing.
You always. We can six cars, we can place cars.
(12:00):
Yeahther just sheet metal, that's all they are, That's right. Yeah.
So so what do we got? What's going on with it? Well? This, Uh,
first off, this truck was running perfectly, with the exception
of h every now and then I get a check
engine light code forty one, which is a cylinder deactivation
solenoid um and it was running perfectly, driving perfectly. This
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was our late son's truck, and so we we really
want to take good care of it, keep it forever,
that kind of thing on it just broken in yeah.
Um anyways, um, so I got an a fender bender
right front corner, got it, uh and all thor Yukon
tried to merge with me, and I didn't quite work. Yeah,
(12:47):
it never works out too well for anybody. Yeah, No,
not really so, but at any rate, Uh so, I
whacked the alignment out just a bit. Um she's told
in some Um we're about two dred and fifty miles
from home. Managed to limp at home. But here's here's
the real issue of the real conundrums that that have
got me. Um. So, it took this hit the power steering.
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I went to move the car out of the road. Uh,
you know, I get it out of the traffic lanes
and whatnot. H power steering was kind of jerky a
little bit, and then suddenly it just stopped working all together.
After the accident. After the accident, okay, um so at
any rate, um um, And boy, she steered really really stiff.
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And I mean I've driven cars with you know, broken
power steering belts and whatnot, and and yeah they are stifford,
but this guy was really stiff. I felt like I
was hydraulic pressure and maybe holding it. I didn't know
for sure. But but at any rate, long story made short.
Um the belt, Finn, The pump is fine. The fluid
is right up there. A matter of fact, I just
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changed the fluid here, um last year. Um it's uh
no leaks anywhere. It's got a power stirring cooler. UM.
When I go to turn the wheel, of course, it's
very stiff. I can hear the engine slow down chest
a little bit. I mean we're talking PM something like that.
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I've got a pretty good ear for these and but
I but I get no power assist, and it's got
rack and pinion and so what what my questions are
for you is And I've got a number of lights
on in the dash too, and I'll go over those
real quick. UM. I've got an E S P and
B I S light. I've got the check engine light
(14:38):
for the forty one. Yet it shows gas cap loose
in the odometer. UM. Gas caps not loose. UM. But
the the real issue is is UH? And and what
I'm not familiar with with this particular vehicle. And I
know you've got you know, all the another resources and
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maybe you've seen this before. UM, is there something electronic
connected in the steering itself that could cause the the
rack can no longer um? Except pressure or not to
zero pressure. I've seen I've seen cases with pulse with
duty cycled power steering is limited will give you you
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know it's it's they do different things in parking lots.
They might open it up so that you have higher
you know, it requires less steering effort, higher power, steering pressure.
And then out on the highway and they'll they'll wind
it down so it's more road field type of a thing,
but not to the point where it's worse than manual steering.
So my questions are this happened right after the accident,
(15:49):
immediately immediately, um, and this is this is purely and
obviously we've got to know, you know, what is the
electrical involvement here? I would definitely I would I would
scan this car for all faults, all modules scan. You know,
why are those two lights on the dishboard? You know,
I know why the check engine lights on, or I
think I know why the check engine lights on, the
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fact that it's reporting a gas cap fit fault tells
me that there's probably a pending evapp evaporative emissions issue
coming about. You know. Anytime you see gas cap loose
or check gas cap and any one of those nonsensical
error messages, that's just a ploy of the marketing department
to convince you the consumer that there's nothing really wrong
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with the car. Just check the gas cap, you know,
because and They did that many moons ago because too
many times the gas station attendant might leave the cap off,
turn on the check engine light, and the customers in
the dealer service department going, Jann that what's wrong with
this new car that I just bought? The car was
two years old, the check engine lights on and all
it is the case that the kid forgot to put
the cap on right, and it makes the car look
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bad because what would what would we all say, damn
car right? We wouldn't. We wouldn't blame you, Tendon. We don't.
You know, most people don't have that kind of moxie.
So you know, they altered the strategy and thinking too.
Instead of turning on the check engine light right away,
they're gonna make you get out of the car. They're
gonna make you check the gas cap and you know,
hopefully that solves the problem so you don't show up
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at the dealership on Monday morning yelling and screaming, Hey,
this piece of junk I just bought's got a bed
whatever in it. So let's do a full system scan.
Why is the E S P Light on? Why is
the other light on? Why is the check engine light on?
Then let's diagnose that. Let's understand what is the electrical involvement?
All right? Is there any on this particular system. But
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I'd be thinking about, you know, if if the pump
is turning, if the pump is on the car, you know,
is there something bent somewhere that I can't see from
my seat here that's causing a bond. But you know,
I don't. I don't think so, Randy from your description.
But I'm just you know, in the back of my head,
I've just you know, it's a phone call. I can't
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physically see the car to work on anything. Um. You know,
you know, is something bent causing a binding effect? Um?
You know if you took the cap off the power
steering is the power steering reservoir remote mounted, it's right
on the pump. Alright, comes in at the bottom of
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all right, do this, take the cap off, start the
car up, turn the wheel, have somebody turned the wheel,
and watch the watch the pump. The pump should show
fluid swirling around, meaning the pump is working. Do that.
Call me back. Let's talk next week. I'm running aiding
the car doctor. We're back right after this blocome back
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when I'm meaning the card Doctor zero zero More information
at car Doctor show dot com. Check out the car
Doctor Facebook page as well. Let's get over to Tony
in Illinois questions about oil chain. Just Tony, Welcome to
the Car Doctor. How can I help? Yeah, Brad, there's
a candic shop been around for a long time. The
old guy sold out, somebody else bought them. As soon
as the guy I bought, the new shop put a
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big sign in front oil changes. I know that's it
sty from this guy? Do that well? Because you're an idiot.
In my opinion, I'm not to have an opinion. America
is still a free country, isn't it. Um? You know
I can tell you it's a lost d It's it's
like even when you said, how do you find a
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good mechanic? And how do you treat a mechanic? I
take my cars to the dealer because I've had a
pretty good report. It's always a nice two or three
times a year to go over to Castle, get a
couple of cases of water, a big tub of twizzlers
and some potato ships. Bring him into the service case here.
Guys say see you later. What you spend twenty bucks? Ye?
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And then if I have to go in the tire. Slow.
I just when reporters comes out, goes up my tires.
I give him a couple of bucks. Done. I have
a beautiful report at my mechanic. Yeah, and that's what
it's all about, you know, the oil change thing. Let's
do the math, Tony. All right. Um, let's say it's
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a five court oil change. Let's say it's a four
court oil change. Give me a price on a quart
of oil. You set the price. How much is a
court oil worth? Let's say four bucks a court, right,
so there's there's there's sixteen bucks there four court system, right,
and how much is the oil filter? Five bucks? All right.
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Let's say the guy puts on a pair of safety gloves,
you know, rubber gloves. Maybe they cost let's say a
dollar in shop supplies twenty two, right, So the guy's
got a gross profit of three dollars and ninety five
cents'll be out of business. We had a toyota what
is a tundry yesterday? To do an oil change. There's
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this big giant steel shield that you have to take
down to get to the bottom of the oil, you know,
drain the I mean it takes you ten minutes just
to do that all right, By the time you set
the truck up and and and get the shield down,
it's you know, it's five ten minutes into that. And
then you drained the oil and put all back together,
you know, somebody, and then and then you know what,
let's hand the guy a credit card and three percent
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of that three is gonna so we're gonna lose eighty
cents there. So now we're down to two dollars, let's
call it. We're gonna we're gonna make two a half
bucks gross profit. Well, yeah, you know so well, and
I really think, you know, I listen my opinion, and
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you know, everybody's got different way of looking at it.
I just happened to be the guy lucky enough to
have the microphone in front of me. I really think that,
you know, it's a lost leader and guy don't have
enough faith in their ability and confidence in what they
can do to properly fix the car. So rather than
you know, wait for the masses to figure out who
they want to go to, they're gonna draw and everybody
and sort them out from there. And no, I don't
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think so, because because here's what happens. The guy goes
in for oil change, and every car needs breaks or
every car needs filters, every car needs tires, every car
needs something, whatever it might be. And you know there's
problems along the way, and then mechanics get a bad ramp.
As gee, the guy promised me this and he couldn't
deliver you. He couldn't deliver because he can't afford to
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be there anymore. Well, it is but the cheap ow
that wants to spend. And when they tell him it's
gonna crush, he's gonna flip out. He's gonna think it
should Let's take that Toyota Tundra into the guy. It
takes eight quarts of oil, all right, So you know
what's he gonna do there? I mean, listen, I think
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if if I was a shop next door to that guy,
I roll all my cars in there and say here,
change every one of them. What are the words you're well? Yeah,
you if even if you had to retair a character
for you still do it because that's your your blood.
You know what. There's yore. You know what, Tony, I
(23:16):
gotta tell you. We talked about it. If there was
a way I could retire and just fix cars to
help people, I do it tomorrow. I would. I no,
I never have. I would absolutely, I would absolutely love
to do that. I read a story there's a guy
down and I think it's Texas, and it's called God's Garage.
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God bless the guy he's he's it's an all volunteer
staff and they're helping people that can afford to pay
for car repairs, to keep the cars on the road.
And you know what, that's called paying it forward and
leaving the plan in a better place. I would do
it tomorrow if I could do it. Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's you know, it's to make up for
all the bad things we did as kids. Um, you know,
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had a sick We gotta sit down and get back
the basics. Hey, I had a wonderful day playing checkers
with my seven year old grandson. I'm seventy four and
he beat me three games and that's good. And you
know what, he'll remember that for the rest of his life.
Everyone I beat Grandpa three times, and you know it's
it's it's a great show and a great crew. Thanks
to keep up the good work. Well, thank you, sir.
(24:20):
No we ever get out that way, we'll stop in
and say hey, so all right, you take good care
of Um. I know who that was, Tom, That was
Tony Amelia. That was our retired police officer from Chicago
most likely. And I was gonna tell you about the
h there's a repair shop near my house. They have
a big sign out front sixty an hour for labor.
And I've been sitting here going, you know, here's wonder
(24:42):
what's wrong with this picture? Well, well I can tell
you what that is. I can tell you about the
de labor rate thing is even easier to explain. Okay,
you know what, I'll tell you my labor rate. It's
an hour. How do you count your hour exactly? It's
how you count ours? Right, Um, you know what's it?
What's it worth it? Do any of this? And orto
repair like lawyers like m like doctors, like so many
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service based businesses. It's about results and you know what's
the long and the short of it and how do
we make it work? And that's you know, that's really
where all of this is at. Um, So just something
to be aware of. He let me just do this
quick piece of email from Mitchell. I've been dying to
read this, you know, Mitchell. The folks over at Mitchell
Information Systems comes out with these real fixed Sure trek
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Um emails to me once in a while, and though
they come out on an actually a regular basis, this
one's kind of interesting. It's a real fix from Mitchell's
new short track expert information source mp A. What's mp
A Vehicle service information? It continues, is jam packed with acronyms,
and keeping track of what they all mean can be
a full time job. Boy, that's the truth. A bs
tcs PCM m p A. The definition of an mp
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A switch might not come immediately to mind. The short
track Fix of the Week continues, and it says, but
follow this kind of like escalad real fix to see
how it relates to diagnosing and repairing a code C
zero to six corrected or connected a scan tool and
found C zero eighty six mp A switch remains closed,
open or mp A intermittent. Well, you gotta make up
your mind which one is. It. Used the scan tool
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clear the code, performed an anti lock brake system function
test with the scan tool and reset the code right away.
The code came back into the words, used the scan
tool to monitor live data and found the ah ha,
here's what m p A is. Medium pressure accumulator switched
parameter indicated uncharged with the key on engine and the
engine off. The scan tool watched the live data, connected
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a fuse jumper across the switch and the supply circuit
and observed the switch parameters start changed state to charge,
meaning that they left it plugged in. They put a
fuse across or they put a fused wire across the
connector and they showed now it changed too. Shows the
switch as closed, so that where the wiring harness was
intact leading back to the A B S controller. So
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we knew the problem wasn't in the wiring harness or
the A B S. It was somewhere ahead of us,
which is the switch which is located the mp A
switch which is located in the break pressure modulator valve assembly.
They put a modulator valve in. It cleared the codes
and the vehicle operator properly. The customers concerned did not return.
This is kind of a neat feature. We're gonna try
and start and do more of these. But you know,
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short track is something that our real world fixes. Mitchell
Repair Information they add that to all of their you know,
their their shot management software. You can find more information
out on the web at mitchell one dot com and
we thank them for their efforts and trying to make
lives easier for mechanics everywhere. Eight five five zero nine
zero zero. I'm rondading the car doctor and I'm back
right after this. Need advice on how to maintain that
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classic g t O. Ron is the guy eight five
five five zero nine zero zero. Here's Ron. I can
think you how to maintain the g t O started
up winded out when you pull second year, just make
sure that second gear and when you see it, feel
the fire smoke. And just a lot of gt O stories,
some of them we can't talk about on air. Let's
go and talk to Bob in Phillisberg Volkswagon Beetle. How
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can I go from a g t O to a
conversation about a Volkswagen Beetle? Robert, how are you? Sir? Hey? Fine?
I want to give a shout out. I finally got
somebody interested in listening to your show. Can give them
a shout out. It's Dan from Johanna and the Garage.
Just one of the he's he's he listens to you
(28:32):
all the time. Now I finally talked him into it. Well, good.
Now I got seven listeners, so um, yeah, we're climbing.
What's going on? The sixty five beetles got Grantlin's in
the starting circuit to the wiring of fees from the
ignition switch to the starter. Uh So it turned out
that the wiring harness is going to have to come
(28:52):
out because the boltings drop is horrendous. So temporarily what
I'm doing is is running a sick fault relay. There
By the bat round or needs a back seat to
be you know, powers of this Illinois. You know right
off the batteries that I'll get me going for a while.
But the wiring harness is going to have to come out.
In order to do that. I gotta when the energie
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comes out, when I want to overall, I want to
prepare the wiring harness. Now my question is where do
you buy electrical wire and you know, connectors and that
and all that for shops supplies. Well, I would just
various companies, but nothing that's really gonna work for the Volkswagen.
It's very specific. I would just buy a wiring harness. Well,
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that's the problem. I've already looked a couple and here
they're designed for a twelve bowl and there's something keeping
sixth bowls. Well, but the wiring is a different gauge. Yeah,
but you know, the problem, Bob is gonna be that
you're gonna have to find exact connectors and exact pins
to match what's there. Right, I mean you're talking. What
(29:57):
you're basically asking me is or telling me, is you
want to make your own wiring harness for this car. Right, Well,
then you've just you know, I don't think any I
don't think any present day sore as. We buy them
from a company. We buy a lot of our electrical
stuff from a company called Rogo. They're located up in Middletown,
New York. But they're all model, they're all modern day,
you know, everyday transportation vehicles. You're looking for something that's
(30:20):
gonna be specialty six Volkswagen brother. You know that's that's
fifty years ago. Uh you know, it's it's it's it's
gonna become a specialty item. And and frankly, I just
gotta believe it's somewhere somebody's gonna make a wiring harness.
And you know, um uh you know, just uh just
just you're gonna need a wiring harness. You're gonna need
(30:42):
to really replace the harness as an assembly because what
you're trying to do is so tedious. Uh you know, listen,
you'll you'll finish it, but it might be ten years.
It's it's an exacting task what you're trying to do.
And I think you're going along the wrong way around
the barn to make the point. Yeah, okay, all right, okay,
what I needed to know because you know, I when
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you get running driving this car because the weather is
starting to break and uh and uh, you know, go
up there and hopefully I could do one of if
your cruises. Well, you know, if the Volk's wagon is
stuck in the garage, you know, that's it's safer there.
Nothing could happen to it. Um, we gotta have reliability.
Who well, that's rights. Yeah, we gotta make it. We
(31:26):
gotta make sure it works. But at least nothing and
won't get lost, Um, won't get stolen. It could float
down the river though, still you know you can turn
it into a riverboat. Um. Yeah. Beetles, No, beetles do float.
Don't ask me how I know. So they do. There
was actually a commercial years ago, did you know that. Seriously,
there was a commercial years ago. It does everything including
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float or some sets thing like, I gotta look for
that on YouTube. But John Paul Georgia Ringo, Yeah, well
stay on outside of the glass story. Every everybody's got
a Beatles story. And every time and I sit there
a while, I never got the call. Yeah, I have
more people come over and and it puts a smile
on their face. And some of them are some of
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them are good stories. Um, anyway, I gotta go, Robert.
I love you to death. You take good care of yourself, right,
you take by bye. I'm running any of the card
doctor I'll be back right after this. Welcome back, aren't
any of the card ocerated by five zero zero card
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Doctors show, dot com podcasting and all the good stuff.
I'm real quick. Listener called in regarding Bob and Phillipsburg
with the six volkswagon, and we thank them for this.
We love it when you guys calling and give us information.
But he suggested called painless wiring. Painless wiring, Bob. If
you're listening or your friend Dan is listening, painless wiring
there down in Texas. Little caller said, Um, I have
heard of painless wiring. I know they make stuff for
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you know, muscle cars and modern or modern performance vehicles,
et cetera. But maybe they've got something for six volt volkswagons.
Um uh you know, and you can solve your problem
that way. So painless wiring down Texas way, we're told,
take a look at that. Let's get it over and
talk to Tony in Iowa. Return call ninety Volvo C seventy.
Hey Tony, how are you today? I'm good, Ron, Thanks
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for taking my call. It is actually my senate call
then a couple of weeks ago, and I want to
thank thank you. You helped him to diagnose the problem
with this. This car is being a torottle body, right yeah, um,
this was the car. What was it doing? It was
stalling or didn't have power or something went in the lip?
Hum yeah yeah, yeah, having trouble starting once it was
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started with run for a while and anyway, he got
to a local Volvo mechanic and and they agreed that's
what it was. I haven't done anything with him, may
not either. It's it was expensive report prepare for that. Yeah,
um part if I remember, right? Okay, well it went
up yet it's it's you know, um, isn't that sad too?
(33:55):
You know? It's you can spend all that time and
take care of an older car and all of a
sudden that one p that's electronic that you need, and
across so much to keep those electronic pieces on the shelf,
but now all of a sudden you just price yourself
out of existence. You can't afford to drive the car.
It's terrible. Yeah, you know it's it's uh. I think
it's well, we mechanic does probably the center, not the
(34:19):
actual throttle body, but I think the sensor is part
of the throttle body. I don't think you can buy
it separately, if I recall correctly. I see any on eBay.
One of the forums recommended you can update it to
a magnetic one that eliminates the carbon tracking. But you know,
it's kind of kind of started doing all that work too.
(34:41):
So yeah, it's um, yeah, it's listen, cars, I'm telling
you right now. Maybe not in my lifetime, but I
really believe cars are gonna become and I guess they are.
Maybe it has happened in my lifetime. They are. They
are getting to be throwaway items. I know, we're right
out of Time, but can't tell me what book that is.
Your uncle Steve wrote, you want to go out on
the web and you want to look for a Ramrod
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to Munster, Ramrod to Munster. Google search and you'll find it.
Regarding Uncle Steve's first mission over Germany, I'm running ating
the car. Doctor good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See
you
Oh yeah, yeah, yea, Ronians, I started the basics, right,
we always we start at the beginning. I tried scanning
for codes, a scan codes. There were no fault codes
in this vehicle. Nothing, not a zip. I got a
B S, M V S C lights on it. I
got a car that doesn't run worth a hoop, that
car doctor. Yeah, I gotta tell you you're you're a
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I wish we could duplicate you. Yeah, everybody keeps everybody
keeps saying that. I wish we could. Um. I wish
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That last one was I can't think of the actor,
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and let's go talk to Alan about camera. Allen, welcome
to the Car Doctor, sir. How can I help? Well,
thanks for taking my call. You're welcome. I've got camera
(02:16):
and when the driver's window goes up on automatic, it's
the top and it comes back down halfway. And I'm
wondering if there's any sticks to that other than replacing
the whole keypad, which is over well, I don't know
that it is that that it is the keypad. Um.
You know, there is a method of initialization that has
(02:36):
to go about does the window seem to drag it
all alan? Is it it goes up? Normal process? I
mean the first thing I would do then is I
would scan this car for codes. I know that sounds
um silly, but you know there could be fault codes
in the fourteen things like that. There there's non issues,
but understand what happens here that that window regulator or
(02:59):
the window a motor is, for lack of a better
way to say it, it's feeling the drag of the
sliding resistance of the window glass, all right, and when
it senses if it doesn't, it has to know top
and it has to know bottom. And there's another there
is an initialization procedure whereby you're going to open the
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window all the way and then hold it for one
second after the window is fully opened, and then fully
closed the window and hold it for one second or
more and that sets the glass position. All right. Now
there's an led on the master switch. That light will
stop blinking and illuminate to show you that the initialization
is complete. All right. And if you know, if for
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some reason or maybe for some reason it lost initialization,
I have seen that. Um, you know, something changed in
the way the regulator perceived drag resistance and it just
kind of lost its mind. So it you know, it's
it's fail say, is when it when it hits top,
it just automatically opens halfway, which is the first class,
(04:05):
don't it. It seems to go up fine that it
only happens when it's not magic. If I jobbed the switch,
I can get it to go up the way. But
if I do it too much, can I get the top?
Then of course it comes back down again? Right? So
how do you so? So do this? Take the window,
Take the window as far up as you can, all right, um,
(04:26):
And then and then open the window. And when you
get down to the bottom, hold the switch. Hold the
switch to account of five one to you know, five mississippies,
one Mississippi to Mississippi. And then after it does that,
close the window. And hold it for a count of five.
All right, and watch them holding the switch up? Who
(04:47):
was holding the switch up? After it goes up, it
still comes back down again? It does, Yes, so you're
holding the switch. Then we gotta scan for coach. I
don't I don't think this. There may be a fault
in this regulator. This vehicle doesn't know where top and
bottom is. This is this is, this is something a
little deeper than um a relearn if if if you
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can't get this window to go up all the way
and stay in the help position. And I don't know
that that necessarily means it's a switch. Like I said,
this is all based on network communication. First thing I'd
be using as a scan tool to see, you know,
can I talk to everything and can follow proper command?
All right? Who told you that it was a switch?
I haven't had anybody look at it yet. And now
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this is this is this is way more involved than
just a window regulator and a and a you know,
this is a network thing, um or it can be.
This is all about you know, this is all about
communication between components. So yeah, new Wage Electronics is exactly right.
Um so, but yeah, let them take a look at
it and uh, you know, let's diagnose this. But you know,
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if it's if it's if it's not responding to initialization,
that's the first clue that there's there's something wrong here.
All right, sir, than you let me know what happens. Alan,
I'm curious, So get back to me and let me
know what the what the deal is. Let's go and
talk to Paul in Virginia. Some comments about autonomous cars. Paul,
what's going on? Yes, hello, I know how you feel
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about automas cars and I feel the same way. And
it's kind of interesting. And previous caller, I mean, that's
an automous window and it's not working correctly. So you
really want autonomously operated vehicles? Well yeah, well this technology
could be actually useful, beneficial is if it doesn't control
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the car. But let us know how our driving is.
And so at the end of the trip, you're you're
driving for of that trip, whether it be five miles
or five hundred miles, would be then rated and come
up on a screen and and uh, you know, you
you can see where you know, well, uh you you
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you can't to stop it was past the stop sign
or past the strike or well this that and the
other and how you know, maybe help you to, uh
to improve. And I think a lot of people too,
they they like that gratification thing, and uh so it
might actually improve people is driving, which you mean you
(07:32):
could be improved. It means sort of like their insurance
rate might go down if they scored more points in
the good driving department. Well that's it too. I mean
they might even have uh that information going to the
insurance company. I mean, it probably should be a sort
of thing where you could opt in or opt out,
you know, because that's kind of a big brother situation.
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You know. They do have that now with with insurance
companies involved. They do and earns companies and they've had
it for a while where they plug in a ride
along device that plugs into the O B D two
port and it will track how you drive, speed limits.
It can't necessarily tell if you're if you're doing rolling
or Hollywood stops it stops signs, and it can't tell
if you're driving like a jerk, but it can tell
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you know, speed, acceleration rate. You know, it can tell
a bunch of information and it does affect people's insurance.
And we're seeing more and more of that in the shop,
so they've got that. I'm not sure how they would tell,
you know, the stop sign thing or weaving in and
out of lanes, but I guess there's ways. I think
the biggest problem you're gonna have is that is as
you said, big brother, and that will keep people from
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allowing it, because we all have this fear and understandably so,
of what the government would do or could do. Unfortunately,
and I don't think a lot of people realize it.
More and more are every day, but automobiles are becoming
data centers as we speak, meaning that you know, the manufacturer,
the the you know, um trying to think about the
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insurance companies. A lot of outside agencies are paying very
careful attention to you know, where you put the headrest,
what radio stations you're listening to. Um on newer cars,
you know, these these um UH connected cars as we
call it. Where you get in the car, you touch
a button, It puts the head rest here, it puts
the seat rest there, It adjust the radio station, it
(09:26):
turns on the heat. It's all preferences and in terms
of your driving desire, and they're they're they're collecting that
information at some level, they're turning that into marketing information
at some level. And I just I saw. I went
to a seminar on this about a year ago, and
it was it was scary and fascinating at the same
time about what's being collected on the newer cars, the
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information about the characteristics and habits of the driver. And
you know, we're I keep thinking of that that science
fiction thriller from the seventies. I think it was Logan's Run,
and you know how the people all lived in that
sheltered dome and um, uh they went for I forget
what it was they went. They called it rejuvenation or
(10:10):
something at the end um celebration or whatever, and uh,
it was a controlled society. So you just uh four
years old, yeah is it? Yeah? Thirty is it thirty
four years old? Logan? Yeah, thirty four years old. You
went for the It was you were over. Your life
was over at thirty four, right, that was it. And
that's why Logan went for the run. Right. Yeah. So anyway, Um, Paul,
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, brother, and UM, we'll
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say we'll keep an eye on it, you know what,
stay the costs and stay the cause and uh, you know,
just try and do what you can do. You have
a good rest of the day. Down there in Virginia Way.
I'm running Anty in the car. Doctor. We are back
right after this. He drives that way. But when it
comes to fixing cars, Ron has card advice done right
eight five five five zero nine nine zero zero. Here's Ron. Yeah,
(10:56):
but if I had that Dodge, I probably wouldn't. I'd
probably go Grenny go, Ron, go roun go run and
Dodge is the perfect name to have on the front
of a car coming at you, right, they jump and
get out of the way, would be you know, it's
too long, right. So besides, you know you've never seen
me drive the fifty five, have you? You showed me videos?
I think i'd stay out of the way. Yeah, so
(11:17):
you know, and there's a reason why you never see
me in that car. You get it? Anyway? Um, I
could answer this, I could. All right, let's do this.
Let's go over the phone. Let's go over to to
Randy's been waiting there very patiently. Oh eight Dodge durango. Hey,
here's a Dodge. By the way. You know what dodge
stands for? Randy? Do you know what dodge stands for
uh tell me ron drips, oil drips, grease everywhere. Go ahead,
(11:37):
what can I do for you? Okay? Right, yeah, this
is an all way to Dodge Durango. And um, my
wife and I just recently got in an accident with
this this vehicle. I'm sorry everybody. Everybody all right, everybody
is okay, And you know that's the most important thing.
You always. We can six cars, we can place cars.
(12:00):
Yeahther just sheet metal, that's all they are, That's right. Yeah.
So so what do we got? What's going on with it? Well? This, Uh,
first off, this truck was running perfectly, with the exception
of h every now and then I get a check
engine light code forty one, which is a cylinder deactivation
solenoid um and it was running perfectly, driving perfectly. This
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was our late son's truck, and so we we really
want to take good care of it, keep it forever,
that kind of thing on it just broken in yeah.
Um anyways, um, so I got an a fender bender
right front corner, got it, uh and all thor Yukon
tried to merge with me, and I didn't quite work. Yeah,
(12:47):
it never works out too well for anybody. Yeah, No,
not really so, but at any rate, Uh so, I
whacked the alignment out just a bit. Um she's told
in some Um we're about two dred and fifty miles
from home. Managed to limp at home. But here's here's
the real issue of the real conundrums that that have
got me. Um. So, it took this hit the power steering.
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I went to move the car out of the road. Uh,
you know, I get it out of the traffic lanes
and whatnot. H power steering was kind of jerky a
little bit, and then suddenly it just stopped working all together.
After the accident. After the accident, okay, um so at
any rate, um um, And boy, she steered really really stiff.
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And I mean I've driven cars with you know, broken
power steering belts and whatnot, and and yeah they are stifford,
but this guy was really stiff. I felt like I
was hydraulic pressure and maybe holding it. I didn't know
for sure. But but at any rate, long story made short.
Um the belt, Finn, The pump is fine. The fluid
is right up there. A matter of fact, I just
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changed the fluid here, um last year. Um it's uh
no leaks anywhere. It's got a power stirring cooler. UM.
When I go to turn the wheel, of course, it's
very stiff. I can hear the engine slow down chest
a little bit. I mean we're talking PM something like that.
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I've got a pretty good ear for these and but
I but I get no power assist, and it's got
rack and pinion and so what what my questions are
for you is And I've got a number of lights
on in the dash too, and I'll go over those
real quick. UM. I've got an E S P and
B I S light. I've got the check engine light
(14:38):
for the forty one. Yet it shows gas cap loose
in the odometer. UM. Gas caps not loose. UM. But
the the real issue is is UH? And and what
I'm not familiar with with this particular vehicle. And I
know you've got you know, all the another resources and
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maybe you've seen this before. UM, is there something electronic
connected in the steering itself that could cause the the
rack can no longer um? Except pressure or not to
zero pressure. I've seen I've seen cases with pulse with
duty cycled power steering is limited will give you you
(15:24):
know it's it's they do different things in parking lots.
They might open it up so that you have higher
you know, it requires less steering effort, higher power, steering pressure.
And then out on the highway and they'll they'll wind
it down so it's more road field type of a thing,
but not to the point where it's worse than manual steering.
So my questions are this happened right after the accident,
(15:49):
immediately immediately, um, and this is this is purely and
obviously we've got to know, you know, what is the
electrical involvement here? I would definitely I would I would
scan this car for all faults, all modules scan. You know,
why are those two lights on the dishboard? You know,
I know why the check engine lights on, or I
think I know why the check engine lights on, the
(16:10):
fact that it's reporting a gas cap fit fault tells
me that there's probably a pending evapp evaporative emissions issue
coming about. You know. Anytime you see gas cap loose
or check gas cap and any one of those nonsensical
error messages, that's just a ploy of the marketing department
to convince you the consumer that there's nothing really wrong
(16:33):
with the car. Just check the gas cap, you know,
because and They did that many moons ago because too
many times the gas station attendant might leave the cap off,
turn on the check engine light, and the customers in
the dealer service department going, Jann that what's wrong with
this new car that I just bought? The car was
two years old, the check engine lights on and all
it is the case that the kid forgot to put
the cap on right, and it makes the car look
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bad because what would what would we all say, damn
car right? We wouldn't. We wouldn't blame you, Tendon. We don't.
You know, most people don't have that kind of moxie.
So you know, they altered the strategy and thinking too.
Instead of turning on the check engine light right away,
they're gonna make you get out of the car. They're
gonna make you check the gas cap and you know,
hopefully that solves the problem so you don't show up
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at the dealership on Monday morning yelling and screaming, Hey,
this piece of junk I just bought's got a bed
whatever in it. So let's do a full system scan.
Why is the E S P Light on? Why is
the other light on? Why is the check engine light on?
Then let's diagnose that. Let's understand what is the electrical involvement?
All right? Is there any on this particular system. But
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I'd be thinking about, you know, if if the pump
is turning, if the pump is on the car, you know,
is there something bent somewhere that I can't see from
my seat here that's causing a bond. But you know,
I don't. I don't think so, Randy from your description.
But I'm just you know, in the back of my head,
I've just you know, it's a phone call. I can't
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physically see the car to work on anything. Um. You know,
you know, is something bent causing a binding effect? Um?
You know if you took the cap off the power
steering is the power steering reservoir remote mounted, it's right
on the pump. Alright, comes in at the bottom of
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all right, do this, take the cap off, start the
car up, turn the wheel, have somebody turned the wheel,
and watch the watch the pump. The pump should show
fluid swirling around, meaning the pump is working. Do that.
Call me back. Let's talk next week. I'm running aiding
the car doctor. We're back right after this blocome back
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Doctor Facebook page as well. Let's get over to Tony
in Illinois questions about oil chain. Just Tony, Welcome to
the Car Doctor. How can I help? Yeah, Brad, there's
a candic shop been around for a long time. The
old guy sold out, somebody else bought them. As soon
as the guy I bought, the new shop put a
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big sign in front oil changes. I know that's it
sty from this guy? Do that well? Because you're an idiot.
In my opinion, I'm not to have an opinion. America
is still a free country, isn't it. Um? You know
I can tell you it's a lost d It's it's
like even when you said, how do you find a
(19:33):
good mechanic? And how do you treat a mechanic? I
take my cars to the dealer because I've had a
pretty good report. It's always a nice two or three
times a year to go over to Castle, get a
couple of cases of water, a big tub of twizzlers
and some potato ships. Bring him into the service case here.
Guys say see you later. What you spend twenty bucks? Ye?
(19:56):
And then if I have to go in the tire. Slow.
I just when reporters comes out, goes up my tires.
I give him a couple of bucks. Done. I have
a beautiful report at my mechanic. Yeah, and that's what
it's all about, you know, the oil change thing. Let's
do the math, Tony. All right. Um, let's say it's
(20:16):
a five court oil change. Let's say it's a four
court oil change. Give me a price on a quart
of oil. You set the price. How much is a
court oil worth? Let's say four bucks a court, right,
so there's there's there's sixteen bucks there four court system, right,
and how much is the oil filter? Five bucks? All right.
(20:41):
Let's say the guy puts on a pair of safety gloves,
you know, rubber gloves. Maybe they cost let's say a
dollar in shop supplies twenty two, right, So the guy's
got a gross profit of three dollars and ninety five
cents'll be out of business. We had a toyota what
is a tundry yesterday? To do an oil change. There's
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this big giant steel shield that you have to take
down to get to the bottom of the oil, you know,
drain the I mean it takes you ten minutes just
to do that all right, By the time you set
the truck up and and and get the shield down,
it's you know, it's five ten minutes into that. And
then you drained the oil and put all back together,
you know, somebody, and then and then you know what,
let's hand the guy a credit card and three percent
(21:27):
of that three is gonna so we're gonna lose eighty
cents there. So now we're down to two dollars, let's
call it. We're gonna we're gonna make two a half
bucks gross profit. Well, yeah, you know so well, and
I really think, you know, I listen my opinion, and
(21:50):
you know, everybody's got different way of looking at it.
I just happened to be the guy lucky enough to
have the microphone in front of me. I really think that,
you know, it's a lost leader and guy don't have
enough faith in their ability and confidence in what they
can do to properly fix the car. So rather than
you know, wait for the masses to figure out who
they want to go to, they're gonna draw and everybody
and sort them out from there. And no, I don't
(22:13):
think so, because because here's what happens. The guy goes
in for oil change, and every car needs breaks or
every car needs filters, every car needs tires, every car
needs something, whatever it might be. And you know there's
problems along the way, and then mechanics get a bad ramp.
As gee, the guy promised me this and he couldn't
deliver you. He couldn't deliver because he can't afford to
(22:35):
be there anymore. Well, it is but the cheap ow
that wants to spend. And when they tell him it's
gonna crush, he's gonna flip out. He's gonna think it
should Let's take that Toyota Tundra into the guy. It
takes eight quarts of oil, all right, So you know
what's he gonna do there? I mean, listen, I think
(22:55):
if if I was a shop next door to that guy,
I roll all my cars in there and say here,
change every one of them. What are the words you're well? Yeah,
you if even if you had to retair a character
for you still do it because that's your your blood.
You know what. There's yore. You know what, Tony, I
(23:16):
gotta tell you. We talked about it. If there was
a way I could retire and just fix cars to
help people, I do it tomorrow. I would. I no,
I never have. I would absolutely, I would absolutely love
to do that. I read a story there's a guy
down and I think it's Texas, and it's called God's Garage.
(23:38):
God bless the guy he's he's it's an all volunteer
staff and they're helping people that can afford to pay
for car repairs, to keep the cars on the road.
And you know what, that's called paying it forward and
leaving the plan in a better place. I would do
it tomorrow if I could do it. Yeah, I mean,
you know, it's you know, it's to make up for
all the bad things we did as kids. Um, you know,
(24:00):
had a sick We gotta sit down and get back
the basics. Hey, I had a wonderful day playing checkers
with my seven year old grandson. I'm seventy four and
he beat me three games and that's good. And you
know what, he'll remember that for the rest of his life.
Everyone I beat Grandpa three times, and you know it's
it's it's a great show and a great crew. Thanks
to keep up the good work. Well, thank you, sir.
(24:20):
No we ever get out that way, we'll stop in
and say hey, so all right, you take good care
of Um. I know who that was, Tom, That was
Tony Amelia. That was our retired police officer from Chicago
most likely. And I was gonna tell you about the
h there's a repair shop near my house. They have
a big sign out front sixty an hour for labor.
And I've been sitting here going, you know, here's wonder
(24:42):
what's wrong with this picture? Well, well I can tell
you what that is. I can tell you about the
de labor rate thing is even easier to explain. Okay,
you know what, I'll tell you my labor rate. It's
an hour. How do you count your hour exactly? It's
how you count ours? Right, Um, you know what's it?
What's it worth it? Do any of this? And orto
repair like lawyers like m like doctors, like so many
(25:06):
service based businesses. It's about results and you know what's
the long and the short of it and how do
we make it work? And that's you know, that's really
where all of this is at. Um, So just something
to be aware of. He let me just do this
quick piece of email from Mitchell. I've been dying to
read this, you know, Mitchell. The folks over at Mitchell
Information Systems comes out with these real fixed Sure trek
(25:29):
Um emails to me once in a while, and though
they come out on an actually a regular basis, this
one's kind of interesting. It's a real fix from Mitchell's
new short track expert information source mp A. What's mp
A Vehicle service information? It continues, is jam packed with acronyms,
and keeping track of what they all mean can be
a full time job. Boy, that's the truth. A bs
tcs PCM m p A. The definition of an mp
(25:51):
A switch might not come immediately to mind. The short
track Fix of the Week continues, and it says, but
follow this kind of like escalad real fix to see
how it relates to diagnosing and repairing a code C
zero to six corrected or connected a scan tool and
found C zero eighty six mp A switch remains closed,
open or mp A intermittent. Well, you gotta make up
your mind which one is. It. Used the scan tool
(26:12):
clear the code, performed an anti lock brake system function
test with the scan tool and reset the code right away.
The code came back into the words, used the scan
tool to monitor live data and found the ah ha,
here's what m p A is. Medium pressure accumulator switched
parameter indicated uncharged with the key on engine and the
engine off. The scan tool watched the live data, connected
(26:32):
a fuse jumper across the switch and the supply circuit
and observed the switch parameters start changed state to charge,
meaning that they left it plugged in. They put a
fuse across or they put a fused wire across the
connector and they showed now it changed too. Shows the
switch as closed, so that where the wiring harness was
intact leading back to the A B S controller. So
(26:54):
we knew the problem wasn't in the wiring harness or
the A B S. It was somewhere ahead of us,
which is the switch which is located the mp A
switch which is located in the break pressure modulator valve assembly.
They put a modulator valve in. It cleared the codes
and the vehicle operator properly. The customers concerned did not return.
This is kind of a neat feature. We're gonna try
and start and do more of these. But you know,
(27:15):
short track is something that our real world fixes. Mitchell
Repair Information they add that to all of their you know,
their their shot management software. You can find more information
out on the web at mitchell one dot com and
we thank them for their efforts and trying to make
lives easier for mechanics everywhere. Eight five five zero nine
zero zero. I'm rondading the car doctor and I'm back
right after this. Need advice on how to maintain that
(27:49):
classic g t O. Ron is the guy eight five
five five zero nine zero zero. Here's Ron. I can
think you how to maintain the g t O started
up winded out when you pull second year, just make
sure that second gear and when you see it, feel
the fire smoke. And just a lot of gt O stories,
some of them we can't talk about on air. Let's
go and talk to Bob in Phillisberg Volkswagon Beetle. How
(28:10):
can I go from a g t O to a
conversation about a Volkswagen Beetle? Robert, how are you? Sir? Hey? Fine?
I want to give a shout out. I finally got
somebody interested in listening to your show. Can give them
a shout out. It's Dan from Johanna and the Garage.
Just one of the he's he's he listens to you
(28:32):
all the time. Now I finally talked him into it. Well, good.
Now I got seven listeners, so um, yeah, we're climbing.
What's going on? The sixty five beetles got Grantlin's in
the starting circuit to the wiring of fees from the
ignition switch to the starter. Uh So it turned out
that the wiring harness is going to have to come
(28:52):
out because the boltings drop is horrendous. So temporarily what
I'm doing is is running a sick fault relay. There
By the bat round or needs a back seat to
be you know, powers of this Illinois. You know right
off the batteries that I'll get me going for a while.
But the wiring harness is going to have to come out.
In order to do that. I gotta when the energie
(29:14):
comes out, when I want to overall, I want to
prepare the wiring harness. Now my question is where do
you buy electrical wire and you know, connectors and that
and all that for shops supplies. Well, I would just
various companies, but nothing that's really gonna work for the Volkswagen.
It's very specific. I would just buy a wiring harness. Well,
(29:36):
that's the problem. I've already looked a couple and here
they're designed for a twelve bowl and there's something keeping
sixth bowls. Well, but the wiring is a different gauge. Yeah,
but you know, the problem, Bob is gonna be that
you're gonna have to find exact connectors and exact pins
to match what's there. Right, I mean you're talking. What
(29:57):
you're basically asking me is or telling me, is you
want to make your own wiring harness for this car. Right, Well,
then you've just you know, I don't think any I
don't think any present day sore as. We buy them
from a company. We buy a lot of our electrical
stuff from a company called Rogo. They're located up in Middletown,
New York. But they're all model, they're all modern day,
you know, everyday transportation vehicles. You're looking for something that's
(30:20):
gonna be specialty six Volkswagen brother. You know that's that's
fifty years ago. Uh you know, it's it's it's it's
gonna become a specialty item. And and frankly, I just
gotta believe it's somewhere somebody's gonna make a wiring harness.
And you know, um uh you know, just uh just
just you're gonna need a wiring harness. You're gonna need
(30:42):
to really replace the harness as an assembly because what
you're trying to do is so tedious. Uh you know, listen,
you'll you'll finish it, but it might be ten years.
It's it's an exacting task what you're trying to do.
And I think you're going along the wrong way around
the barn to make the point. Yeah, okay, all right, okay,
what I needed to know because you know, I when
(31:02):
you get running driving this car because the weather is
starting to break and uh and uh, you know, go
up there and hopefully I could do one of if
your cruises. Well, you know, if the Volk's wagon is
stuck in the garage, you know, that's it's safer there.
Nothing could happen to it. Um, we gotta have reliability.
Who well, that's rights. Yeah, we gotta make it. We
(31:26):
gotta make sure it works. But at least nothing and
won't get lost, Um, won't get stolen. It could float
down the river though, still you know you can turn
it into a riverboat. Um. Yeah. Beetles, No, beetles do float.
Don't ask me how I know. So they do. There
was actually a commercial years ago, did you know that. Seriously,
there was a commercial years ago. It does everything including
(31:46):
float or some sets thing like, I gotta look for
that on YouTube. But John Paul Georgia Ringo, Yeah, well
stay on outside of the glass story. Every everybody's got
a Beatles story. And every time and I sit there
a while, I never got the call. Yeah, I have
more people come over and and it puts a smile
on their face. And some of them are some of
(32:07):
them are good stories. Um, anyway, I gotta go, Robert.
I love you to death. You take good care of yourself, right,
you take by bye. I'm running any of the card
doctor I'll be back right after this. Welcome back, aren't
any of the card ocerated by five zero zero card
(32:28):
Doctors show, dot com podcasting and all the good stuff.
I'm real quick. Listener called in regarding Bob and Phillipsburg
with the six volkswagon, and we thank them for this.
We love it when you guys calling and give us information.
But he suggested called painless wiring. Painless wiring, Bob. If
you're listening or your friend Dan is listening, painless wiring
there down in Texas. Little caller said, Um, I have
heard of painless wiring. I know they make stuff for
(32:49):
you know, muscle cars and modern or modern performance vehicles,
et cetera. But maybe they've got something for six volt volkswagons.
Um uh you know, and you can solve your problem
that way. So painless wiring down Texas way, we're told,
take a look at that. Let's get it over and
talk to Tony in Iowa. Return call ninety Volvo C seventy.
Hey Tony, how are you today? I'm good, Ron, Thanks
(33:10):
for taking my call. It is actually my senate call
then a couple of weeks ago, and I want to
thank thank you. You helped him to diagnose the problem
with this. This car is being a torottle body, right yeah, um,
this was the car. What was it doing? It was
stalling or didn't have power or something went in the lip?
Hum yeah yeah, yeah, having trouble starting once it was
(33:32):
started with run for a while and anyway, he got
to a local Volvo mechanic and and they agreed that's
what it was. I haven't done anything with him, may
not either. It's it was expensive report prepare for that. Yeah,
um part if I remember, right? Okay, well it went
up yet it's it's you know, um, isn't that sad too?
(33:55):
You know? It's you can spend all that time and
take care of an older car and all of a
sudden that one p that's electronic that you need, and
across so much to keep those electronic pieces on the shelf,
but now all of a sudden you just price yourself
out of existence. You can't afford to drive the car.
It's terrible. Yeah, you know it's it's uh. I think
it's well, we mechanic does probably the center, not the
(34:19):
actual throttle body, but I think the sensor is part
of the throttle body. I don't think you can buy
it separately, if I recall correctly. I see any on eBay.
One of the forums recommended you can update it to
a magnetic one that eliminates the carbon tracking. But you know,
it's kind of kind of started doing all that work too.
(34:41):
So yeah, it's um, yeah, it's listen, cars, I'm telling
you right now. Maybe not in my lifetime, but I
really believe cars are gonna become and I guess they are.
Maybe it has happened in my lifetime. They are. They
are getting to be throwaway items. I know, we're right
out of Time, but can't tell me what book that is.
Your uncle Steve wrote, you want to go out on
the web and you want to look for a Ramrod
(35:03):
to Munster, Ramrod to Munster. Google search and you'll find it.
Regarding Uncle Steve's first mission over Germany, I'm running ating
the car. Doctor good mechanics aren't expensive, they're priceless. See
you
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